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In January 1959 Fidel Castro took power in Cuba and soon proved to be a perplexing opponent for the United States. The island nation did not have to commit soldiers or weaponry to advance its revolutionary agenda in Latin America. The ideas and ...

This thesis presents an Internet resource sharing architecture . It allows users to access and utilize unused computer resources, such as CPU cycles and storage, without an expert's knowledge. It achieves this by providing a number of abstract services ...

This research was conducted within a single integrated acute and community healthcare trust to explore the role of Occupational Therapists (OTs) with frail older people across acute, intermediate and primary care settings. A group of local and ...

Despite the pervasiveness of digital technologies in society and educational settings, gaps in digital participation for elementary learners and means-end views of the benefits and effectiveness of digital innovations for teaching and learning ...

This thesis is entitled 'The "double movement": parody in the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet, with particular reference to Un Régicide'.The principle objective of the thesis is to illustrate how a re-assessment of Pour un nouveau roman (1963) can ...

This thesis research study is of a major manufacturing corporate located in UAE that has been suffering from a business dilemma represented by a dramatic financial decline and a significant deterioration in social and environmental business-...

Since the end of the Cold War, the relationship between international and domestic law has become one of the most pressing conundrums in legal theory and practice. But this is an old problem of politics, society and law within and between states. ...

Throughout the history of the spreadsheet, and throughout the majority of research into improving it, the grid of cells has remained a constant as the underlying data model. An idea that has received recent interest is to provide users with a ...

This is a study of how teachers, students and administrators in a particular university's language department in Guanajuato, Mexico, construct the English teachers' professional image. The experiences of ten teachers, fourteen students, and two ...

Introduced in 1879, following over a decade of mounting anxiety about 'contamination' in English convict prisons, the 'star class' was an administrative division for first offenders intended to ensure their segregation from other prisoners. ...

The most appropriate means of classifying mental health disorders has attracted the interest of philosophers of psychiatry since at least the 1970s, with much discussion being centred around successive incarnations of the American Psychiatric ...

The dissertation draws largely on the Old Testament to examine the function of the veil as a means of determining the reason for its rending (Matt 27:51a), as well as the association of the veil with the heavenly firmaments in Second Temple and ...

Visual search is an important part of human-computer interaction (HCI). The visual search processes that people use have a substantial effect on the time expended and likelihood of finding the information they seek. This dissertation investigates visual ...

The American sublime aesthetic, discussed frequently in literature and art of the United States, is equally manifest in the nation's symphonic music as a concurrent and complementary aesthetic. The musical application of the American sublime ...

As the computer revolution converges with yet another unprecedented trend--the graying of America, researchers and policy makers are seeking ways to use technology to deal with the challenges of an aging society. Due to skyrocketing costs, health care ...

This thesis identifies and provides a solution for a particular problem in natural language generation: the problem of ensuring the expressibility of a text plan. Natural language generation is the process of going from a representation of a situation ...

Qatar is rapidly transforming from a traditional conservative and modest society to a more open, modern and technologically advanced society. Qatar has made significant strides over the recent years in increasing the participation of women in ...

Chapter 1 Gold Catalysis: Strategic Advantages in the Total Syntheses of Complex Natural Products: Since its early use in the late 1980 and 1990, homogeneous gold catalysis has emerged as a powerful tool in the field of natural product synthesis. ...